He then moved a small tenant farmhouse and joined it to the rear of the larger house, making many improvements over the course of the next year, as he detailed in his journals. But without the building blocks in Alcott’s novel the 2019 Little Women couldn’t exist.In 1857, Amos Bronson Alcott purchased 12 acres of land with a manor house that had been on the property since the 1660s for $945. It’s been repurposed to fit an even more feminist narrative here. Whether or not you'll love the changes is a different sort of story.Ī lot has been made of the one line Laura Dern utters in the trailer and movie for Little Women, “I’m angry nearly every day of my life,” which is a line lifted straight from the pages of Louisa May Alcott’s( in many ways radical) book.

However, what the director commits to the big screen is done rather faithfully, just with her own flair and some touches for a modern-day audience. This includes bits like Amy trying to throw a party for her wealthier mates, the birth of Meg’s babies (who are simply introduced as children), or even Jo and Laura spending more time together in a way that makes it clear he pines for her. In fact, a lot of the book’s charming but less plot-driven anecdotal chapters are either condensed or skipped entirely for the movie adaptation. These sorts of minor changes happen over and over again. It’s a nearly 500-page behemoth with both stories combined, and while we get, for example, Meg testing her relationship by buying fabric she can’t afford, we miss another key anecdotal relationship story about the time she tried and failed to make jelly.

It’s worth noting after all of this that Greta Gerwig’s movie adaptation of Little Women skips large swaths of Louisa May Alcott’s book. This change may seem small but it’s a big difference for a movie that makes a lot of touches to be more female-focused even than past iterations of the project were. In the book, she opens a school for boys-“boys, I want to open a school for little lads”-although girls ultimately attend the school as well, as we find out in Little Men. Jo And The Professor Open A School For GirlsĪt the end of Little Women 2019, the movie makes it seem like a rowdy school has been opened for children of both genders, although when Jo inherits Plumfield, she makes it clear she wants to open a school so girls can get a better education.

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